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| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View of woman smiling and wearing a bathing suit while sitting in the back of a motorboat. She is steering the outboard motor on a lake. Behind her is the ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | An air view of Madison's downtown area with the Wisconsin State Capitol and new State Office Buildings. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Treeland Pines resort on Lake Chippewa. Caption reads: "Air View of Bob Cammack's Treeland Pines Resort; Lake Chippewa, Hayward, Wis." |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of Treeland Pines Resort on Lake Chippewa. Caption reads: "Aerial View of Treeland Pines Resort on Lake Chippewa (The Flowage), Hayward, Wis." |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View down Monona Avenue, which is now Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard, toward Lake Monona. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Aerial view of St. Benedict's convent, mother house, novitiate on the north shore of Lake Mendota (aka Fox Bluff), built in 1953. From 1959 - 1966 it was ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Elevated view of the Milwaukee Road and Chicago & Northwestern Railway crossing on Monona Bay, the site of the old MX tower. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | An aerial view of Middleton. In the foreground is a baseball field, and beyond are houses, woods, fields, and Lake Mendota. |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | This 1950s tourist brochure features a map of Burnett County, Wisconsin, and northern Polk County which shows highways and roads, railroads, landmarks, and... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | Shows city limits, adjoining municipalities, and schools. Indexes, illustrations, ancillary map of Dane County, and ancillary map of Madison business secti... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | This blue line print shows streets, fair grounds, schools, parks, and a cemetery. Streets, points of interest, and Lake Marinuka are labeled. The middle le... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | This map shows landownership in the old Stockbridge Indian reservation on Lake Winnebago in Calumet County. The lots are numbered and labeled by owner. A b... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | This map shows roads, trails, county lines, town borders, section lines, railroads, rivers, lakes, and Lake Michigan on the far right. The bottom margin in... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | This map shows roads, golf courses, airports, fire towers, schools, camp grounds, rivers, streams, lakes, and railroads. The right margin of the map includ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | This set of 32 maps and an index show the (then) proposed route of the Wisconsin Turnpike. The index shows the entire route of the turnpike, and the major ... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View from rocky shoreline of the launching of the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon car) onto Lake Monona. The boat launch is on the left. "11248" is painted on the... |
| Date: | 1955 |
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| Description: | View across water towards the "Monona-Mobile" (pontoon car) on Lake Monona, close to a pier on the left where a man is standing and watching. Buildings on ... |
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